Possible brief disruption in service

[Jhanananda]

I have just signed up for another web hosting service, and the switch over to the new service should take place in the next 24 hours.  So, there might be a brief disruption in service.  Hopefully there will be no hick-ups.

[Jhanananda]

Hello members, I have had nothing but trouble trying to switch to another service provider and move the files for this forum and my other forum and website; however, the deadline for that transfer is rapidly approaching, so I am going to try and do that change today.  So, be prepared for a brief interruption of service, and some possible lost files.

[Jhanananda]

Update, the transfer of my domains, email addresses, websites and forums has already gotten too painful to deal with today.  It looks like it is going to take at least a week for everyone involved to press a button.  So, I am going to meditate instead of taking an anti-anxiety pill.

[Jhanananda]

After far too much anxiety producing go-arounds, the switch to the new web-host is supposedly now out of my control, and will just happen in the next week.  When it does there might be some delays, dropped messages or memberships, so please be patient.

[Michel]

I understand the anxiety you're going through; there's lots of precious material that could be lost. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as well. I copied and pasted into a Microsoft Word document the discussion we had on the Noble Eightfold Path.

[Jhanananda]

I understand the anxiety you're going through; there's lots of precious material that could be lost. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as well. I copied and pasted into a Microsoft Word document the discussion we had on the Noble Eightfold Path.

Thank-you, Michel.  All could be lost all too easily.  There are so many contributions to this forum, that are priceless to me, and I am sure to others, as well as future mystics.

I have been told the transfer could take as much as a week.  I backed up both forums and the website this morning to my computer.  I plan to backup the backup to an external hard drive, which is kept in a tin box for safety. I plan to keep backing up the GWV's web resources every day until the transfer is complete.  I might just make it a habit and back everything up daily.

[Jhanananda]

I just received notification from my web host that this forum has been successfully moved to its new server.  Apparently nothing was lost, and the forum is working.

[Michel]

I'm very happy to hear nothing was lost.

[Jhanananda]

Thank-you Michel, and friends for your patience.  After weeks and great effort I finally jump through all of the hoops to get the website, email and forums running.  Many apologies for the long delay.  Fortunately it appears the was no loss of data.

[Sam Lim]

Glad that now everything's have normalized. Cheers

[Michel]

Thank you Jhananda -very much- for the great efforts you made to get the forum back up and running. I am so happy.

[Jhanananda]

Hello friends, Sam and Michel, thank-you ever so much for your kind support and interest in this forum.  We had a short outage again after I tried sending a newsletter out to the membership to notify them of the GWV web resources being back on line.  The new host saw 120,000 email going out suddenly from this new website and shut it down for a few hours.  Oh well, that is one of the many problems that SPAM has caused us, because most of those 120,000 members are just SPAM engines.

[Michael Hawkins]

It's so good to see the forum back up and running -- thanks to Jeffrey for putting in all the hard, hair-pulling work to make the switch-over happen.  I'm looking forward to reading new contributions from everyone -- including myself!

[Jhanananda]

Thank-you Michael, transferring the GWV web resources to a new host was absolutely hard, hair-pulling, work.  Many days went by when I just could not deal with.  I would give it up, walk away from it, and be content to let all of this work go down the tubes; then after a few days away from it, I would find renewal in meditation, and come back to it fresh, to find it just as hair-pulling a process.  This is why it took weeks, because I found every step of the process maddening.

[mapeli]

Computers are a blessing and a curse. Technology can be very unforgiving and stressful for a mystic. Good to see you pulled through, and Im sorry you had to suffer.
It reminds me once more to be grateful for the service you provide.